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title: "[Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/article-make-your-net-application-support-scripting-the-prac.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/article-make-your-net-application-support-scripting-the-prac.html"
published: "2004-02-17T03:51:00"
updated: "2004-02-17T03:51:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "It was one of those nights. I had a small idea I decided to test, and *BAM* a flood of ideas started. And the end of the night I had this article sitting in my lap and I thought I'd share it with you: Make your .Net…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# \[Article\] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way

By Roy Osherove February 17, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 17, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

It was one of those nights. I had a small idea I decided to test, and \*BAM\* a flood of ideas started. And the end of the night I had this article sitting in my lap and I thought I'd share it with you:

[Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way](https://osherove.com/rosherove/articles/DotNetScripting.aspx)

Summery:

Adding scripting support to your application is one of the most valuable things you can do for your client, letting them add value to your software, and keep it current over time with little or no overhead from the developers. Your users will be able to modify behavior at runtime, change business rules as the market changes and fix subtle bugs as they appear until better fixes come along in the form of compiled code. It is one of the most powerful techniques today employed my many varied business applications. But guess what? Its not very easy to do in .Net. In this article Ill show you how you can use some of the techniques of the past mixed with the .Net framework to add that scripting ability to managed applications, with a touch on a subject that was never considered for scripting: WebServices , including asynchronous calls to them.

As usual, feedback is appreciated.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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